AKAROA DISTRICT:

Comprising all that portion of the Province bounded on the West by the east boundary of the beforementioned Lyttelton District, and on the North, East and South by the Sea.

KAIAPOI DISTRICT:

Comprising all that portion of the Province bounded on the East by the Sea; on the North by the south bank of the Ashley, from the sea to the point where it meets the Great North Road; on the West by the Great North Road, to the south-east corner of the Native Reserve, thence by a line through the Ohoko Bush to the junction of the north and south branches of the River Waimakariri, at the head of Kaiapoi Island; on the South by the south branch of the Waimakariri, to the Sea.

RANGIORA DISTRICT:

Comprising all that portion of the Province bounded on the East by the west boundary of the beforementioned Kaiapoi District; on the North by the south bank of the Ashley; on the West by a line drawn due north and south through Trig. pole C 30, on the south bank of the Waimakariri, to the Ashley; on the South by the Waimakariri.

TIMARU DISTRICT:

Comprising all that portion of the Province bounded on the East by the Sea; on the North by the Orari River; on the West by the Ranges; on the South by the Pareora River.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,

Christchurch, July 17, 1865.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that a writ, calling for the election of a member to serve in the Provincial Council for the Heathcote District, has been returned to him, with the endorsement that

William Henry Wynn Williams, Esq.,

has been duly elected.

Edw. Jollie,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Treasury,

Christchurch, July 8, 1865.

PURSUANT to the provisions of “The Auctioneer’s Ordinance, Session III, No. 3,” I hereby give notice that the undermentioned person has taken out an Auctioneer’s License for the term ending 30th June, 1866:—

William David Barnaard, of Christchurch, Commission Agent.

George A. E. Ross,
Provincial Treasurer.

NOTICE is hereby given, that, by deed bearing date the Seventh day of July, 1865, and expressed to be made between George Masterton Clarke, heretofore of Kaiapoi, in the Province of Canterbury, in the Colony of New Zealand, Schoolmaster, since of the same place Auctioneer, and now of Wellington in the same Colony, Solicitor’s Clerk, of the one part, and Robert Rodger Strang, of Wellington aforesaid, Registrar of the Supreme Court there, of the other part, pursuant to the order of the Supreme Court of New Zealand therein recited, the said George Masterton Clarke assigned to the said Robert Rodger Strang, as such Registrar, and his assigns, certain debts and credits in the schedules to the said deed mentioned, in trust, after payment of the expenses of collecting and getting in the said debts, to divide the net proceeds thereof between the several creditors of the said George Masterton Clarke named in the schedule to his petition therein mentioned, who should, within three months after notice of the said assignment should have been published in the General Government Gazette and the Gazettes of the Provinces of Wellington and Canterbury, come in and prove their debts at Wellington aforesaid, rateably and in proportion to the amount of their debts.

Robert Hart,
Solicitor, Wellington.
July 7, 1865.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,

Christchurch, July 15, 1865.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that, in pursuance of the powers vested in him in that behalf, he has appointed the following persons to be Inspectors, under the Ordinance for regulating the Slaughtering of Cattle, Session VIII, No. 5, for the several Districts set opposite their names:—

Peter Pender, ... Christchurch District.

Charles Davies, ... Lyttelton District.

Thomas Sugrue, ... Akaroa District.

James Hurse, ... Kaiapoi District.

Alfred Buckley, ... Rangiora District.

William Henry Bruckle, ... Rangiora District.

William Henry James, ... Timaru District.

David Ramsay, ... Timaru District.